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#1

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
― Socrates

tags: philosophy

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#2

“You cannot open a book without learning something.”
― Confucius

tags: books, learning, philosopher

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#3

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

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#4

“Study the past if you would define the future.”
― Confucius

tags: direction, future, history, learning, moving-forward, past, strategy

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#5

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.”
― Confucius, The Book of Rites

tags: art, music, power-of-music

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#6

“If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.”
― Confucius

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#7

“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
― Confucius

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#7

“He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.”
― Confucius

tags: wisdom

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#9

“Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.”
― Confucius

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#10

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#11

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

tags: inspiration, truth, wisdom

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#12

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates

tags: gossip

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#13

“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Socrates

tags: amazement, wisdom, wonder

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#14

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: apology, knowing, nothing, paradox, plato, republic, socrates, socratic, wisdome

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#15

“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”
― Socrates

tags: inspirational, reading, wisdom

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#16

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: attributed-no-source, enemies, forgiveness, strategy

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#17

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

tags: inspirational, optimism, perception, pessimism

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#18

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
― oscar wilde

tags: attributed-no-source

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#19

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: truth

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#20

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy

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#21

“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor

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#22

“Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.”
― W.B. Yeats

tags: literature

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#23

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings

tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world

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#24

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

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#25

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”
― Albert Einstein

tags: science

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#26

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

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#27

“Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.”
― Aristotle

tags: friendship

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#28

“If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: misattributed, misattributed-lao-tzu

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